Takeo Shiota
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Takeo Shiota was a Japanese-American landscape architect, best known for his design of the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
George Jay Gould
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George Jay Gould I was a financier and the son of Jay Gould. He was himself a railroad executive, leading the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Western Pacific Railroad, and the Manhattan Railwa
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…Other work includes: one of the four gardens at the Sister Mary Grace Burns Arboretum in Lakewood Township, New Jersey (originally commissioned by George Jay Gould I, and now part of Georgian Court University) a Japanese garden at the Walter Kroll house, "Sho-Chiku-Bai", in Tuxedo Park, New York, for architects…
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"Vigilant" Gould as depicted in Vanity Fair, September 1894. Gould had bought Vigilant, the winner of the previous year's America's Cup, and was racing it in England.
Gould and his family at the wedding of his sister, Helen Miller Shepard in 1913